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Ten Random Quotes

"I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me."
Steve Ballmer

"Essentially, a church is a community that keeps alive the dangerous memories of its classics."
David Tracy

"Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''"
Francis Quarles

"All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
James Gordon Bennett

"And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time."
Carl Yastrzemski

"Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands and potential frustrations."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end."
The First Emperor of Qin

"Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything."
Mitch McConnell

"A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable."
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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